A/N: so I got a few yes's and a few no's about this chapter, but I know it will help a lot with the story plot developing, I was thinking and I was pretty sure that if I didn't write this I wouldn't know how to introduce the plans and thoughts and struggles (because of Jacob) in the werewolf community.
No one kill me, pretty please?
I'm going to start a list of wrong guesses for Bella's power so no one sends me repeats. –Gives a sweet smile-
Force field
Healing
"So
just want me, say you want me
I don't know if I belong
Do you,
not sure I believe but
You could prove me wrong
I'm a fool for
love"
Fool for Love – Stefy
(This song is SO a female version of Jacob, listen if you get a chance)
Jacob Black's POV
(The entire chapter. From the point after Bella talks to him)
Bella… my sweet, sweet Bella. How could she do this to us? WE pulled her through all those months the bloodsuckers were gone. That's why she didn't kill you all on the spot, everyone knows she had the power to. Said the rational voice in the back of my head, until recently that voice had belonged to my father, or Sam when I was in wolf form, but now that voice belonged to only one person. Bella. The girl I loved, but could never have, she had chosen him and his family and as much as it killed me on the inside I knew I would have to leave her with them because it was what she wanted.
I resisted the quivers rippling down my body. If I turned into a wolf now, before my thoughts were in order, the others would know what Bella had told me. That would cause Paul to storm back to the Cullens' place in outrage, demanding to know how she knew about the council, if she did not dispose of him, he would storm back to me, assuming that I had told her.
I sighed. Of all my brothers, I disliked Paul the most. He had a short temper, and never approved of what I did, no matter what it was. It was him who dragged us to these meetings, and it was my other brothers who had gotten excited when the other packs promised us they would rid our land of the family of 7 vampires in exchange for our allegiance and help on other packs' turf.
I saw the outline of a wolf with brown-almost-black eyes staring at me. Sam. I phased into a wolf, not wanting to answer any questions, and Sam was polite enough not to ask any. He was the most understanding, along with Quil and Embry, who were barely any help compared to Sam, but they were much better than the mistreatment I received from Paul and Jarred every day.
"Jacob…" Sam said slowly and carefully. I could tell this would be a conversation between just to two of us if I wanted it to be. As pack leader, Sam could cut everyone out of the mental connection.
I phased back into a human and waited for Sam to phase too. As soon as he did I said, "The only way I'll tell you what I heard is for you to cut off the mental communication for a day or two after this settles. I don't want Paul to know." I growled as his name escaped my lips. I glanced at Sam, but his expression was that of understanding, I knew that he had taken my side, if Paul tried to bad-mouth or kill his Emily I know he would not try to contain his anger after he was a far enough distance from her.
He nodded his head slowly and I told him my story.
He listened intently to what Bella had said and his head fell into his hands. Finally he mumbled, "I can see why you would not want Paul to know, but I'm not sure what we can do about this. Our plan is set into action, our only chance is to tell them as she has asked, many innocent lives may be in jeopardy here. Even though I did not know your Bella well, I do know that she never backed down from a promise, and I doubt she will this time."
"I know," I whispered, "I know." I said into the night for no one in particular.
I slammed my fist into the trunk of a large tree and felt a crack under my hand. I was disgusted with my own lack of self-control. Maybe I'd find a reason, other than the already heaping pile, to beat Paul up. That'd be fun.
Sam and I phased into wolves as we leapt back into the greenery and shrubs of the forest floor. I saw my brothers sitting in my house, and I saw the outline of my father's wheelchair sitting with them.
We walked into the house and I was greeted by Embry's words, "The next meeting is tomorrow night. It's mandatory."
I remembered nothing else from that night, all I remember was disembarking the plane a few hours later, walking into the deserted Russian mountain range where the Head of the Werewolves lived and where all council meetings were to take place.
"I think you all know why we are here today," began Zane, the werewolf belonging to the ruling pack who happened to be in charge of war-fare with the vampires. Cory was their financial wolf, Benjamin their negotiator, Lukas their tracker, and Vladwick was their pack leader.
"Today our meeting revolves around these vampires," Zane said while pushing a manila folder containing pictures to the leaders, Sam, Rick, Mikeal, Hunter, Kraig, Connor, and many others who I did not know. Overall at this meeting I knew of 26 packs, none with less than five pack members, it was believed that if we concentrated on a coven of vampires they stood no chance.
I glanced over Sam's shoulder and looked at the pictures of the all-too-familiar faces looking cheerfully back up at me.
One was of the pixie-like vampire – Alice – she was by far my favorite apart from their leader with the tall blonde male, Jasper I believe was his name they were sitting on the porch in front of their house, merely looking into each others eyes like they could see the depths into their partner's soul – which, they probably could.
The next was of their leader – Carlisle maybe? – and his wife who he had introduced as Esme, in the kitchen of their house, his arms wrapped around her waist lovingly, with the counter a mess behind them, she had a smudge of flour on her nose and all over her clothes, while Carlisle had it plastered in his hair with a line down his cheek. The picture was amusing, yet it made me sad knowing how much such great people must hate me. Why was I feeling this way about a vampire? (A/N: ahh… Jacob's forgiveness begins, notice the vampire instead of bloodsucker and he's using their –gasp- NAMES.)
The next one was of the huge vampire, Emmett was his name with the beautiful blonde one, Rosalie I believe. They were in the garage with what looked like Bella's truck. I could see the hood up and Rosalie leaping at Emmett, I imagine she was working on fixing something with it before he disturbed her. By the look on Emmett's face I could see he had been crawling around trying to fool her, and in the end he was the one with the shocked look on his face and she was the one who got all of the glory.
The last picture was the most heart-breaking. It was of Edward and Bella. Bella was still a human in this picture and they were sitting on a couch – his room perhaps? – and they were just sitting there, Bella in Edward's lap looking straight into his eyes, her hand resting on his cheek. The picture was so innocent, yet so intimate it made me want to look away, but her sheer beauty captivated my interest, and I looked at it until I knew I would never forget that image in my life.
Wait… how did he get all these pictures? I looked over to Sam, and he shook his head, sticking his thumb at Paul. He had stolen these from The Cullen's house, Bella's house. How dare he?
I was snapped back to reality as Zane started talking again. "These are our next targets, they call themselves 'vegetarians' yet only one of them has completely abstained from human blood. They deserve to be punished, as requested by the pack from Forks, they want to protect the humans, on human in particular," He picked up the picture of Bella and Edward, "This human." He said, with disgust.
Everyone was silent until a werewolf, whose name I did not know, said, "How are you sure they have not abstained from human blood?"
"The only one that has is one Carlisle Cullen, he has never drank human blood in all his 300 plus years as a vampire, his wife Esme has accidentally slipped, although it was only once. His son Emmett has slipped at least 3 times that are certain. Emmett's wife Rosalie has slipped twice on human girls who were flirting with her husband." He rolled his eyes at this before continuing. "His daughter Alice drank humans until she had the vision of living with him, she took at least 10 innocents. Her husband, Jasper, wandered for almost 50 ears before finding Carlisle's coven and took hundreds of lives. Then last there is Edward, though his intentions were 'good', he also took human lives, he killed men who attacked women and children – never taking the life of a female or a child himself because it was not right in his time period – he still killed around 75 humans which is unacceptable."
He paused and looked straight at me before starting, "And then there is Isabella Swan. Edward's human lover, but she is no ordinary human, she is in love with a vampire and agreed to marry that monster, is best friends with another vampire, Alice Cullen and whose other best friend is none other than our Jacob Black, who happens to love her." I could feel my face grow hot and it reminded me of Bella's constant blushing, but it was soon taken over with anger, how dare he insult my personal life in front of all the others? It was none of his business in the first place. This is all Paul's fault.
"Well, it doesn't matter, she is no longer human." I spat before I could stop myself. Every single werewolf stiffened.
"He… he bit her?" Mikeal asked me in shock.
"Yes, he bit her," I started, but then a smug smile filled my face and I could see the confusion written on their faces, so I continued. "but it did not work, Bella is not a vampire, nor is she human any longer. Bella is an angel."
"We know you think this human is an angel, but we want to know what happened to her," said Cory coolly.
"That is what happened to her you idiot, she is Gabriel, God's arch angel and she was sent to protect the animal-drinkers from us." I said, my anger getting the best of me. I did not know when I did but I had gotten to my feet and my hands were clenched into fists, my skin convulsing, threatening me that I was about to lose my temper and explode into a wolf.
"Well, this changes things, but not by much," said Zane, a malicious grin on his face. "We can exterminate the third-most powerful (A/n: The second most powerful are human-drinkers. They might come up later.) Coven of vampires out there and the only chance of survival for the vampire race in one swing."
"You stand no chance against her. She was sent here from God himself. Are you really going to defy him?" I spat at him.
"Not alone we're not going to. With the help of some others, I doubt little Isabella will be able to hold her own against over 130 werewolves and our reinforcements."
I felt my heart shatter. I did not want them to hurt Bella, I didn't want them to hurt Alice, or Carlisle, or Emse, or Emmett, or Jasper, or Rosalie, or even Edward. What is WRONG with me? They are vampires, they are not my friends. You'd be surprised. Said that annoying voice in the back of my head, I told myself that the voice was annoying for what it had said, but in truth it was the most beautiful voice I had ever heard, and it was incapable of being annoying.
I snapped back into the present as I heard Zane open his cell phone and dial a number on speed dial.
"Yes Jane, long time no talk, I'd rather say that seeing you wouldn't be very pleasant to my nostrils… Yes I know you'd say the same to me… We have a favor to ask… Yes, the king of the mutts wants a favor… It involves a certain Isabella Swan… Yes, I knew you'd want your revenge… How many can you pledge to help us? … You, Alec, Felix, Demetri, Marcus, Caicus, Heidi, Alexandar, and Cynthia do you say! But what about Aro?... Tell him that he can check up on Bella's transformation if he comes… Yes Jane, after we're through your power will never fail you again. Goodbye Jane."
I was in shock. Zane was in touch with vampires?! With the same vampires who threatened Bella, the same vampires who could send chilling fear through the hearts of any mortal passing? The same vampires who drank human blood?
"Don't look so shocked Jacob, How do you think we learn so much about the vampires we are hunting? Jane will be here with the vampires from Italy shortly. She requests we supply her with food and nose plugs, not like it'll help her much. They'll arrive tomorrow and we will set off immediately."
"Oh, and Jacob?"
"Yes Zane?"
"Don't piss Jane off unless you plan on being in a shit load of pain."
I was about to ask him why as he left the room, slowly followed by all the other pack until mine was the only one left. I saw Paul get up, a smug smirk on his face as he turned to leave, I looked into Sam's eyes and he knew what I was going to do.
"You're leaving us aren't you?"
"I'm sorry, stall the departure for as long as possible, please." I said looking into his eyes and I saw the answer I was looking for before it left his mouth.
"Here are your tickets." Sam said.
"Thank you Sam!" I said before running out the door.
"Jacob--" he said as I was leaving.
"Yes?"
"Be Safe." He said.
I nodded and then I was sprinting faster than I had ever run before to the airport, not even bothering to find a car. My flight was in thirty minutes. Nothing was on my mind besides saving Bella and her family, my vampires. When the HELL did I get possessive of vampires? Since you fell in love with their family, they are kind and you would do anything to get back into their good graces… if you were ever there.
That voice was becoming less of an annoyance and more like a scholar living on the inside of my brain, it knew all the answers.
A/N: ohhh. Jacob is going to be in trouble now… or is he? Is he making the right decision? Who knows? Oh wait, I do. But you don't so…
Hints:
Well, you guys already know the visitor is Jane, but she won't appear until later.
Bella's power has to do with manipulation and sensing things before they happen.
Please send me a MESSAGE with your guess. Thanks a bunch.
-Forbittenlove
